Porträtmalerei
2008 – 2019
• Tronie, 165 x 105 cm
Systemic approach
to a possible reality. The methodical decomposition of the real into individual parts - reduction of colour - a composition in black and nothing (white). The resolution is arrangement and unit of measurement. Furthermore, I see the portrait not only as an image of a person, but as a socio-critical document. A selfie generation.
Tronie 42, 165 x 105 cm
In his 1921 essay, the philologist Roman Jakobson defines the term realism on the one hand as ‘an art movement with the aim of reproducing reality as faithfully as possible by striving for maximum probability’ - which corresponds to the systematic term - but on the other hand also as ‘the sum of characteristic features of a particular 19th century art movement’. Jakobson also illustrates once again that the concept of realism depends not only on the intention of the artist, who conceives his work as probable as possible, but also strongly on the individual perception of the viewer in the historical context.
Porträt Lisa No. 2
Acryl auf Holz
165 x 105 cm
Private collection
